Face The Music: An Electric Light Orchestra Song-by-song Podcast

The last few bits from The Jock-A-Thon, plus segments from December 28, 1982.

Groucho Marx brings the main course to the Thanksgiving dinner at Dinah Shore's home. November 22, 1945

Is there a more holly jollier Christmas story than killing 80 people in a bus accident?

ELO and Olivia Newton-John together and apart.

The three-piece version of Genesis became increasingly popular from 1978 onward, with 1986's Invisible Touch being their biggest yet. Phil Collins managed a successful solo career starting in 1981 and was popular enough that Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks expected him to leave. However, he came back for one more album, We Can't Dance, in 1991. It again spawned a number of hits, but also was their longest since The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. 

The top 40 hits for November 3, 1958.

Jeff Lynne joins The Move!!! Donate to the podcast through Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/ELOPod Or PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.

Another Solve a Crime, and a call to The Man Called Bear: Hero at Large!

Word is Orson timed the Martian invasion to happen when people tuned away from Charlie McCarthy & Edgar Bergen's #1 radio show. This recreates that using the shows from October 30, 1938.

I know tomorrow is Halloween, but next week we start running episodes of Christmas Carol Catastrophes from last year in buildup to the start of NEW episodes of the series on December 4th.

There are other Halloween songs besides "Monster Mash."

After nearly a decade apart, the Mark II version of Deep Purple reformed and made a successful comeback album with Perfect Strangers. It wasn't long before the same tensions that led to lineup changes previously resurfaced and, between a long tour behind the album and slow-going coming up with new ideas, it was three years before The House of Blue Light was released. The album was a blatant attempt to sound like the bands they had influenced. 

The top 40 songs for October 27, 1958.

The last thing on the Shazam album. Donate to the podcast through Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/ELOPod Or PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.

It's the birth of Mike & Eric classics "Solve a Crime," and "Dueling Abbys."

A wacky radio DJ spends a night in a haunted house with his tape recorder. June 23, 1949

It's a longer, looonnnnnngerrrr winding road in this expanded episode. (Song Facts music, "Sunday Morning" by Nicolai Heidlas from Hooksounds.)

George Burns battles it out with Journey, Blondie, and Gary Numan for chart dominance in 1980.

After leaving for two albums Joe Perry returned to Aerosmith for 1985's Done with Mirrors, which also saw the band moving to Geffen Records. The band was clean and sober, but the album didn't click with the public. In order to change that Bruce Fairbairn, the producer behind Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, was brought in, as well as an army of writers to make Permanent Vacation in 1987. The pattern was repeated with Pump in 1989, which solidified the band's comeback, and on Get a Grip from 1991. The latter became the band's best selling album, but was filled with even busier production, more guests and more outside writers. For better or worse it solidified the direction Aerosmith would take for the rest of their career. Donate to the podcast through Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/ericwincentsen P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.

The top 40 hits for October 20, 1958.